Gaulois was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Gaulois (1812), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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| History | |
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| Name | Gaulois |
| Namesake | Gaul |
| Builder | Antwerp[1] |
| Laid down | 1807 [1] |
| Launched | 14 April 1812 [1] |
| Decommissioned | 1824 [1] |
| Fate | Broken up 1831 |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied) |
| Beam | 14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in) |
| Draught | 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied) |
| Propulsion | Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails |
| Armament |
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| Armour | Timber |
Career
editCommissioned in Antwerp, Gaulois served in Missiessy's squadron under Captain Malin[3] before being stationed at Antwerp in March, along with Trajan, for the defence of the town.[1]
At the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, she returned to Brest, where she was decommissioned. She was struck in 1827 and eventually broken up in 1831.[1]
Citations
edit- ^ a b c d e f Roche, vol.1, p.222
- ^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ^ Quintin, p.261
References
edit- Quintin, Danielle; Quintin, Bernard (2003). Dictionnaire des capitaines de Vaisseau de Napoléon (in French). S.P.M. pp. 259–261. ISBN 2-901952-42-9.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 222. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042
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